On the record
Heretofore justice has only been considered as having relation to matters covered by enacted law, and its demands have been considered as satisfied when the law has had its full course.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Woodhull argues that traditional views of justice are limited to legal frameworks and do not encompass broader moral obligations.
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Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.
Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?
Verily, verily, I say unto you, this people vaunteth and puffeth itself with knowledge, but wisdom hath surely departed to the lowly ones of earth!
If they still live as spirits, if they have had better opportunities of obtaining wisdom and knowledge pertaining to earth-life than we—can this world avail itself of their assistance to establish on earth the government of heaven?